Henry James

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Standard Name: James, Henry
HJ (who began publishing in 1871 and continued into the twentieth century) left his native USA to settle in England early in his writing career. Known for his extreme subtlety, verging at times on obscurity,
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
he was hugely influential as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. His also wrote plays, which, however, were unsuccessful on stage.
Henry James in a black-and-white photo by William M. Vander Weyde. James is seen full-face, looking forward and to the left, wearing a formal suit, with bald head slightly tilted.

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Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET further pursued her interest in Henry James by publishing a novel which constitutes a sustained allusion to The Turn of the Screw. She titled it The Beautiful Child.
Wilson, Frances. “The Beautiful Child by Emma Tennant, review”. The Telegraph, 17 Dec. 2012.
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
The great parts written by QDL have not been identified, let alone the weight of her input overall, and scholars are divided over her claims to substantial co-authorship. In the same year, 1995, Ian MacKillop
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB headed her latest novel, A Closed Eye, with a quotation from Madame de Mauves by Henry James .
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Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Random House, 1991.
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Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
VL published her collection Vanitas, Polite Stories. This volume includes the story Lady Tal, which ended the author's friendship with Henry James .
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003.
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Textual Production Ford Madox Ford
FMF published a volume of art criticism, Rossetti : A Critical Essay on His Art, in 1902. He followed this with a work of social criticism, The Soul of London, 1905, which he...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
By this date, according to Julia Briggs , she had already fallen under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Marble Faun, 1860, (an influence she shared with Henry James ).
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber, 1977.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1993, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
While living in the United States, DS contributed to a number of Hollywood screenplays. In 1944 she collaborated on The Uninvited, a classic haunted house story adapted from a novel by Dorothy Macardle (for...
Textual Production George Egerton
One year after this The Yellow Book published a portrait of GE by E. A. Walton . Meanwhile the literary contributors to the first issue of the magazine included Henry James , Max Beerbohm ,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophia Jex-Blake
SJB 's review is largely informational. It covers works of fiction including New Grooves by Annie Thomas , A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade , Dr. Edith Romney by Anne Elliot , Doctor Zay by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Tennant
ET imagines that James in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...

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